Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Some Sad Rail-Accident News Out Of Central Italy

Viareggio (image below) is about two hours west of Perugia, on the other side of Tuscany.

It is a pretty modern town on the main coastal autostrada from Rome to the north and northwest, and a few miles south of the Italian Riviera and the coastal mountains that extend all the way to the Alps.

Two things you will quickly notice about Italy when you visit that wonderful country:

Their autostradas are astonishingly good, with thousands of tunnels to keep them relatively straight, and elevated sections like giant works of art in concrete.

Their rail system is one of the fastest and best engineered in the world and some of the Italian high-speed passenger trains approach speeds of 200 mph.

Eighteen are now reported dead in this extraordinary freak accident. Our commiserations to those suffering this sad tragedy.

Comments

Ciao! Sad accident. Pete, you forget to mention that besides the high-speed trains (which is a much contested issue in Italy), train services in Italy in general is excellent and cheap - and mostly on time!

(It’s an old joke, that the sole positive achievement of Mussolini was to get Italian trains to run on time). The Italian company ‘Ansaldo’ delivers comfortable worldwide state-of-the-art technology in trains.

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